US president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Ron Johnson, a former ambassador to El Salvador, to be his envoy to Mexico.
If confirmed, Johnson could have a frightening transient of pushing Mexico to scale back the northward circulate of migrants and medicines.
A few of his Republican colleagues have supported use of the US navy to tackle drug cartels in Mexico.
“[In El Salvador] he labored tirelessly with Salvadoran authorities and our staff to scale back violent crime and unlawful migration to the bottom ranges in Historical past,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Reality Social.
*This merchandise has been corrected to establish the nominee as Ron Johnson, the previous US ambassador to El Salvador
